Thrill killing
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A Thrill killing is a nickname for a kind of premeditated murder committed by a sane criminal who is motivated by the sheer excitement of the act.
Documented thrill kills
- May 21, 1924 - University students Leopold and Loeb murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks. Both imprisoned for life.
- 1977 - Truro murders - Tandem killing; remains of 7 victims found in Australian bushland.
- February 12, 1993 - Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, kill toddler James Bulger. Imprisoned for ten years.
- March 1994 - Lawrence Colwell Jr. Strangled an elderly tourist in Las Vegas. Executed.
- April 28, 1996 - Martin Bryant. A killing spree in Port Arthur, Tasmania, known as the Port Arthur Massacre. Imprisoned for life.
- May 27, 1996 - Tony Amati, Edward James and Troy Sampson murdered three people in Las Vegas.
- April 19, 1997 - Thomas Koskovich, 18, and Jayson Vreeland, 17 lure the pizza delivery personnel, Jeremy Giordano and Giorgio Gallara, to a remote area to murder them for a thrill.
- 1999 - Alfred Brissette and Marc Girard, of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Conspired to kill a 30-year-old woman.
- December 2003 - February 2004 Benjamin Geen, - Trainee nurse murdered 2 patients and injured 15 others by injecting them with potential lethal drugs when they were admitted to the A&E department at Horton Hospital, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. His motive was said to be for thrills. He was discovered when a 42-year old alcoholic was discovered to have drugs in his urine which were not prescribed by the doctors. On a review of medical records, the doctors realised that the only common factor linking the unusually high rate of respiratory arrests was Geen. First victim killed was Anthony Bateman, 66, who was admitted to the hospital on 6 January, and David Onley, 75, died on 22 January having been admitted the date before. The injured victims aged between 22 and 89 of both gender but most of them elderly. He was found guilty on 18 April 2006 at age 25.
See also
- Thrill Kill, PlayStation game
- Thrill Kill Kult
- The Thrill Killers, 1965 movie
- Murder by Numbers, 2002 movie
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